Federal Reports

A Baggage Foreman in Newark, New Jersey, was terminated from employment March 21, 2018, and an Usher/Gateman in Wilmington, Delaware, received a three-day suspension on March 15, 2018, for violation of company policies related to shipping boxes on Amtrak trains. Our investigation determined the Baggage Foreman shipped five boxes on a train without collecting and remitting the shipping fees to the company.

A Carman Journeyman in Chicago, Illinois, was terminated from employment March 26, 2018, following an administrative hearing for stealing Amtrak property from trains in the Chicago Yard.

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The OIG audited the costs claimed by the Government of Guam’s Department of Agriculture under grants awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program. The audit included claims totaling $4.6 million on 31 grants that were open during the State fiscal years that ended September 30, 2015, and September 30, 2016. The audit also covered the Department’s compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and FWS guidelines, including those related to collecting and using hunting and fishing license revenues and reporting program income.We found that although the Department complied, in general, with applicable grant accounting and regulatory requirements, it had not 1) established sufficient internal controls over employee time reports, 2) submitted Federal Financial Reports in a timely manner, 3) limited the use of grant-funded vehicles to official business, and 4) maintained complete property records for assets acquired with grant funds or hunting and fishing license revenues. We also determined that Guam legislation could divert control of Program funds to the chief technology officer.In addition, we identified prior year grant fund expenditures of $139,764 that were related to Department administration building upgrades that will no longer benefit the Division, and that the relocation of the Division’s coordination staff from the administration building to the fisheries building negatively affects the authorized and original purpose of the fisheries building. Further, we found that the FWS failed to initiate and address, in a timely manner, the consultation processes regarding environmental compliance for the Program.

Our audit objective was to determine if U.S. Postal Service contracting officers (COs) are administering Time and Materials (T&M) and Labor Hour Contracts in accordance with Supplying Principles and Practices (SP&P). As of July 2017, there were 105 open T&M and Labor Hour contracts awarded during fiscal years (FY) 2006 – 2017, valued at $432 million. Our statistical sample included 70 contracts totaling over $294 million.

Revised May 2018

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Circular, Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary, dated January 18, 2013, requires the OIG to review VA’s FY 2017 Performance Summary Report to the ONDCP. According to the circular’s criteria and requirements, the OIG reviewed whether VA has a system to accurately capture performance information and properly apply it to generate the performance data reported in the summary report. The OIG did not identify anything that caused reviewers to believe VA lacked a system to accurately capture performance information or that the system was not properly applied to generate the performance data reported. This report is the second of two OIG publications that examine VA’s reporting requirements to ONDCP.

As required by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Circular, Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary, dated January 18, 2013, the OIG reviewed VA’s FY 2017 Detailed Accounting Submission to the ONDCP. The OIG reviewed VA’s management’s assertions concerning VA’s drug control methodology, application of the methodology, reprogrammings or transfers, and fund control notices. With the exception of the effects, if any, of material weaknesses or significant deficiencies that the OIG previously identified in the Audit of VA’s Financial Statements for Fiscal Years 2017 and 2016, the OIG’s review did not identify anything that caused reviewers to believe management’s assertions included in VA’s submission were not fairly stated in all material respects consistent with the criteria set forth in the circular. This report is one of two OIG products that examine VA’s reporting requirements to ONDCP.